Corbin's First Steps...finally!

Corbin finally got brave enough to take his first steps yesterday. He was 15 months and 22 days old. For his very first steps he just started following Cade around the house. Unfortunately I wasn't here so I didn't get it on video. These videos are after he had been at it awhile. We knew that as soon as he decided to do it he would take off.

Corbin Playing Catch - 15 months old

Maia's Dance Recital

Her dance was to Stray Cat Strut.

It was her first recital, and she did awesome!

Showing her claws


"I got cat class, and I got cat style"

Her favorite part was wearing make-up. She asked if she could wear it to church on Sunday. Um, NO!

Not too happy that dad was taking video of her

"ENOUGH with the pictures already!"

The Amazing Easy Bake Oven

The tastiest b-day gift around. :) To date Maia has cooked up 2 sugar cookies (pictured), 4 cakes and 2 pancakes. Whenever I'm baking something I just give her a couple spoonfuls of batter and she is completely giddy. I remember baking with my Easy Bake and it's super fun watching her have so much fun with the new and improved version.

Maia & Elle - These two spend 24/6 together...

everyday except Sunday :)

Maia's 7th Birthday

We had an UP-citing adventure for Maia's 7th b-day. We took 13 kids to see UP (luckily 3 of my buddies came to help me!) After the movie we came home for hot dogs, cake & ice cream, and gifts. Maia had a great time!!!

The party girls

The party boys

Miss Denise, our AWESOME neighbor

Adley

Gray & Elle

Keslie, Cassidy, Sydney

Ally Beth & Brady

Olivia, aka Livy

Kirsten

Lily

Bri

This kid is too dang stinkin' cute!

I just want to kiss his face off.

Finally crawling normal.

Walking is just a couple weeks off, I am afraid.

I love this smile!

Long & skinny wiener dog. Look at those legs.

Savannah, GA

The last weekend in May Connor had an All Star tournament in Statesboro, GA which is about 40 miles away from Savannah. We had never been to Savannah so we decided to go a day early and make a vacation out of it.

Tybee Island

We went to Tybee Island to take a Dolphin Tour. There's a pod of about 80 dolphins in the area and you go out on a boat and they're just swimming around all over the place. We didn't get any great pics, but you can see the fin of a couple. It was so fun! The kids (and adults) freaked every time we'd see one. We loved Tybee! The Georgia Coast is so unique. After our tour we ate fresh shrimp and crab at the marina. It was awesome! We are hoping to make it down again and rent a beach house for a few days.

The beautiful Georgia Low Lands

Captain Harvey let all the kids take a turn driving the skiff.



Corbin was so hot and tired (after getting up at 5:00 AM and not sleeping ONE WINK on the 5 1/2 hour drive). He screamed the whole tour, then the last 10 minutes finally fell asleep when I undid his life jacket. We tipped Captain Harvey pretty well for putting up with that. :)



Downtown Savannah


Savannah is one of the oldest cities in the country. It was really cool to see all the old buildings and architecture.

What a handsome kid!

Classic Cade!

I thought this staircase was so cool!

It matched the cobblestone streets.

Notice the moss in the trees. It hangs everywhere.

This lighthouse dates back to the late 1700s

The Tournament

Our team played 3 back-to-back games, 8 straight hours of baseball. I cant even tell you how many goldfish Corbin ate. They won 2 of their 3 games, losing to the team who is ranked #1 in the state by only 1 point. The last game they were down 3 - 11 and in the last inning, with 2 outs, they rallied and came back to win. It was so exciting!